Comic Book Resources

Well, at least there aren't any more Communists, thanks to the Saint!

No Silver St. Cloud? No St. Dumas?

The Saint was an Avon Comic?

Avon like Avon Ladies?

No Pyro? His name was St. John Allerdyce after all....

Man, whoever drew those covers knew how to draw some FINE looking women.

Only one cover had no woman on it.
Who slipped up?

Modern comics artists could learn a thing or two about how to draw sexy women from these covers.

Stephen - To be fair, that woman-less cover both:

a) Says "A beautiful blonde" on it and
b) Contains one guy hitting another in the face with the butt of his gun.

I think it can be excused.

This is as good an excuse as any to mention how much fun the original Saint stories by Leslie Charteris actually are; the real ones, that is, before he started farming them out to ghostwriters in the 50's and 60's. I'd especially recommend this book or this one, either is a great sampler. I've always wondered how involved Charteris was with the Saint comics, if he oversaw them or if they were adaptations or what. The guy was so shameless about employing ghostwriters and assistants it makes it hard to dig out the real stuff.

Is that fourth one down Wil Eisner? Sure looks like his work.

The second one too.

Leslie had very little involvement with the Avon comic books as he was busy working in Hollywood at the time and simply licensed the Saint out to Avon.

However he scripted all the comic strips in the New York Herald-Tribune which ran from 1948 to 61.

Ian